Motherboard Driver Installation (is it important?)

Spokwiththeears · 19 Mar 2010 at 12:06

I have just put together a new system and have installed Windows 7, everything is working fine but would it be worthwhile actually installing the sata drivers, the audio drivers and the assortment of other utilities that come with the motherboard?

I have installed the Graphics Card drivers obviously, it didn't seem worthwhile installing the other ones I mentioned because everything is working.

stulid · 19 Mar 2010 at 12:14

To get the maximum speed and functionality of the parts its best to use the proper drivers from the manufacturer of the parts, rather than rely on the generic microsoft ones.

Redmint · 19 Mar 2010 at 12:20

The generic ones do seem to work fine most of the time, but yeah as Stulid said it's usually best to grab the manufacturers drivers. Download from the manufacturers website rather than using the CD to make sure you have the most up to date versions.

Philtor · 19 Mar 2010 at 12:37

The only driver's I downloaded were for my sound and graphics card. Couldn't find any chipset drivers for my board so either Asus are not releasing any or they are already inbuilt into Windows 7.

stulid · 19 Mar 2010 at 12:45

philtorrens said:
The only driver's I downloaded were for my sound and graphics card. Couldn't find any chipset drivers for my board so either Asus are not releasing any or they are already inbuilt into Windows 7.

Tried intel?

Philtor · 19 Mar 2010 at 13:10

Yeah I tried their site as well but no joy stulid. It's a P5KPL-CM model I have.

stulid · 19 Mar 2010 at 13:14

As with most things in life, when it gets too old people don't care anymore.

I wonder how long I can expect any updates for my board for.

Philtor · 19 Mar 2010 at 13:20

Very true. Will hold off for a while yet and then move on to an i5 system me thinks

Ch3m1c4L · 19 Mar 2010 at 13:56

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=6nnVb6RBxd7PhGmt&templete=2
and click on download or
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
and select motherboard, socket 775, p5kpl-cm

depending on which background page layout you prefer, they should have the same stuff on them though. Job done?

Philtor · 19 Mar 2010 at 14:11

Hi Ch3m1c4L thanks for the links. The Asus download page only offers me the 'Intel Chipset Inf Update Program' under Chipset downloads and this doesn't appear to do much other than tell Device manager my exact chipset type.

Ch3m1c4L · 19 Mar 2010 at 14:36

oh, well, errr, what you have to do right is...errrr....use the cd that came with your board?

/flees

For mine, I just get the nvidia driver, and i can do this from asus or nvidia. I can get drivers for really old chipsets as well, so I guess because its an intel chipset, that maybe they are just standard drivers like you said.

Philtor · 19 Mar 2010 at 14:39

lol ! Thanks for your help but. The driver disk is only suitable for Windows XP and Windows Vista and refuses to run under Win 7 x64 but it's no biggie. My system is running stable so im happy

Yurihyuga · 19 Mar 2010 at 15:51

I find the windows 7 drivers work fine, only thing I do is update the chipset drivers

Ch3m1c4L · 19 Mar 2010 at 16:29

jsut to make sure, they arent showing up in optional updates on windows update are they? Thats where all my driver updates show up, well I say all, only my SiL raid card and my chipset/graphics drivers have updated since I've had win7 so meh.

coupe69 · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:50

You just need to download and install the latest inf update from Intel

click here for the latest version dated 12/22/2009

Asus website has always been pretty shocking for both the latest drivers and download speeds.